Every great, liveable city should feature an easy escape valve to nature. #Copenhagen #AmagerFælled

This junk store find (Børge Mogensen stol 3060) was at a very precisely calibrated price point: very cheap/still unjustifiably expensive.

Social housing at Dorthevej 2 in Copenhagen's Nordvest neighbourhood #architecture #urbanism

Last night we spoke with A, the first refugee we hosted in Nov 16. He arrived as a terrified Eritrean teenager. Now he is a brilliant confident young man, a US citizen , graduate, business owner. Proud American. America can be proud of him. America betrays itself when it turns its back on refugees

I sway outside myself Into the darkening currents, Into the small spillage of driftwood, The waters swirling past the tiny headlands. Was it here I wore a crown of birds for a moment While on a far point of the rocks The light heightened, Theodore Roethke, The Rose

Danish election poster pulling no punches.

Absolutely fabulous new article from @llchristyll.bsky.social on what crystallised in Copenhagen in 1970.

This is truly, wilfully abhorrent. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Who amongst us has not speculated upon what sour cola potato chips would taste like?

Having just finished Jenny Erpenbeck's magnificent "Kairos," I enjoyed this greatly. How we & things & time all get inscribed into each other and how, in time, we & things & time can all get lost to one another. She writes with great historical consciousness. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

OTD in 1762 Jos Wedgwood wrote to Thomas Bentley about all that he hoped for in their future friendship, including, beautifully "to help me form a probable conjecture of things beyond our kenn." In 1768, they went on to form on of the most brilliant partnerships of the Industrial Revolution.

Read all about it! Swedish Cold War exposé!

I don't form a culturally coherent group even when it's just me an no-one else.

Heron is patient.

#OtD 17 Oct 1961 scores of Algerian demonstrators were massacred by police in Paris after a curfew was ordered for Algerians and Muslims. Over 200 were beaten to death and robbed by police and thrown in the River Seine stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8939...

Really looking forward to this, experiencing an author for the first time.

It was a real pleasure to read @lauracforster.bsky.social's fine new essay on "Befriending the Dead" in @historyworkshop.org.uk this morning. It contains deep wellsprings of optimism. academic.oup.com/hwj/advance-...

Really looking forward to making something from this definitely not at all terrifying cook book.

Wonderful new paper from Amrita Roy on "Caste Embeddedness and Entrepreneurship in Colonial and Contemporary India" in @entandsoc.bsky.social

I guess I should get a move on and publish that essay on what kinds of knowledge were *really* useful to C18th entrepreneurs (and where did they get it from).

I saw this superb movie a few months ago & am pleased to see it getting a UK theatrical release & positive review. But I take issue with this epically bad final take. Far from "gaming" anything, anyone in Souleymane's position is completely trapped in a system mercilessly stacked against them.

Got a food waste box on Wed: all the veg for a stir fry; tomatoes for a marinara; kale, corn, & pots in a kale & white bean soup; eggplant in a Turkish lentil soup; cucumber in tzaatziki; cabbage for malfouf. Still have lots of potatoes. Yippee for us! But our food systems are broken

Of course it's the batshit techno-futurism & #entrepreneurialismasdiscourse as the only route to salvation that get all the headlines, but it's just another Gospel of Wealth. Here, Thiel says the quiet part out loud. Like so many of the very rich, he simply doesn't believe he should pay taxes

Business and management history folks, and those in org studies, any suggestions for how to approach what looks like a fascinating source?

Visited Thoravej 29, a beautifully repurposed factory building in Copenhagen's Nordvest neighborhood. Great slabs have been cut from monolithic concrete floors and then canted downward to create broad stairways, simultaneously letting in floods of light.

TIL there's an Irish band, makers of "blackened death metal." called Malthusian, and I'm little in awe.

The paintings of Gazan Ahmed Muhanna, seen today on their last day in Copenhagen. Expediency drove Ahmed to use flattened cardboard boxes from World Food Program aid packages. Necessity proved to be a brilliant mother of invention.

This, 1000 times ("We should teach our children entrepreneurial bullshit literacy to reduce the risk of them being shamed by lifestyle influencers who want to push pyramid schemes or crypto investments on them") & not just against crypto bullshit. #entrepreneurialism as discourse is one helluva drug

As Copenhagen hosts a major European summit over the next two days, I have to say that it's a novel experience to be left feeling a little unsettled by a European summit. The (always present) sirens from nearby Åboulevard probably don't help.

They've all been sent to the Naughty Step.

Getting ready to talk about "Crap!" in class, using "Our Crap, Our Selves," the intro to Wendy Woloson's brilliant "Crap. A History of Cheap Stuff in America." I've asked the students to prepare a one pager on some piece of crap they own & have just had the most fun writing my own "My Crap Couch!"

Next, Ken Sakai, Yuki Tsuboyama & Masatoshi Fujiwara lead us through the tangled pathways of "Reinterpreting Medical Innovation: The Social Adoption of Automated Multiphasic Health Testing and Services in Japan, 1937–2023." We are delighted to publish this essay OA. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Just asking questions!

Build it and they will come. So build more. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Inspiring. I'm going to start planning a Theodore Roethke themed workout. There will be roses. And silt. Not yet sure about the rest.

POLICE AGAINST THE MOVEMENT retells the '60s civil rights struggle through its overlooked work against police violence and the surveillance, infiltration, and retaliatory prosecutions they faced from police in return. It's a pre-history of both the Black Lives Matter and Blue Lives Matter movements.

This is what I meant to repost! It looks fabulous ... and no doubt Marx would have had something to say.

"A simple, straightforward reading of Marx teaches us that freedom requires that people have independence over their work, over their time, over their bodies. Since most people in a capitalist society lack such self-rule and must sell their labor to survive, capitalism is incompatible with freedom."

This is an interesting, thoughtful conversation. Objections to reparations are often couched in logistics: who would pay what to whom? But, at root, is it rather that many believe it is simply not warranted or deserved? That it wasn't so bad really. That after abolition there is nothing to expiate?

Good. Now please recognise Palestine. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

They really hate us, don't they, we "citizens of nowhere."

Technologically advance a band. The Velvet Monorail

"Still, the hard work of thinking things onto the page is hard." Every word of every post in this thread.

Me promoting this skeet like I didn't also write this skeet. But much more importantly, it's a great article that deserves to be read!

Parking lot at my workplace. Mine's in there somewhere.

That there is still any Wedgwood production in Staffordshire is almost more surprising than the 90 day pause, but with 10 years living there, 1 PhD, 1 book, many articles, & an ongoing fascinating with Josiah himself (more to come, I hope!), this still hits me. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Historians: has anyone tried rewriting one of their own earlier articles? Not just revisiting sources or themes, but taking a single article and rewriting it from the sources used in the original? Or know of anyone who's done similar? The idea really intrigues me. But maybe its silly #historians

The UK is at a terrifying juncture.

Thank you to @robertbohan.bsky.social for a wonderful thread celebrating the work of Anna Ancher, a great artist whose work I only began to get to know after moving to Denmark.